Language: Souletin Basque

Classification

This entry has been retired and is featured here only for bookkeeping purposes. Either
the entry has been replaced with one or more more accurate entries or it has been retired
because it was based on a misunderstanding to begin with.

Souletin is just a dialect of Basque, and so is asserted by all speakers from
the Soule region from the first written records in 17th century to the present.
Nobody identifies his or her language as "Souletin". All their putative speakers
uniformly self-identify as Basque speakers. From 1964 there is a standard Basque
("euskara batua" or unified Basque), which is the language taught in most
schools, including those in the French Basque Country, and used in the media and
official documents of the Basque Country.